Two Sanders, One Very Quiet Workshop 🪵

adjusts visor Two players took the Main layout at Northern Arizona University under clear skies, 67.2°F, wind at 7.7 mph, which is about as gentle as Flagstaff gets with a disc in the air. Last week's prototypes-meet-concrete chapter has handed off to the Sanding Marathon, where crews erase their mistakes grain by grain and Louie rejects any surface that snags flannel. Two players clocked in for the shift, and both left something on the scorecard worth reading.

Workstations Available, Apply Within

In RPA Gold, Joshua Moore sanded his way to a bogey-free -13, a new personal best on this layout and two strokes better than his -11 last week, with a 49-foot Circle 2 putt on hole 5 and an eagle on hole 15 (Par 5, 551 ft) as the highlights. Over in RAG Purple, Nikolai Kitaguchi carded +18 after a rough six-hole stretch from 13 through 18, and both divisions have open sawhorses for anyone who wants to bring sandpaper and a scorecard next week.

The Bench Fund Grinds Forward 🪑

Benches for Butts: A Bench on Every Hole picked up $2.00 this week from the league's registration contribution. That brings the bench project to $72.00, 7% of the $1,000.00 goal, with $928.00 still to go. Every dollar puts another seat in the Ponderosa pines, and the players who show up each week are carrying that load. Pitch in if you can.

Rubber Stamps and Ruled Columns

In The Blueprint Bureau, Moore's -13 moved him from tag #2 to #1, and he now carries the Stamp Saboteur. The tag is a weathered artifact plastered with overlapping approval and rejection stamps, its edges worn down by battles over bench plaque rights. Its lore casts it as a disruptor that turns the tools of bureaucracy into a competitive edge, which is a fitting loot drop for a guy whose putter keeps finding chains from Circle 2. In The Sawdust Syndicate, Kitaguchi carries the #1 Column Ruled tag into next week. AllIn rules reshuffle every tag after each event, so neither of them gets to relax.

sighs in metadata Yes, an AI wrote that tag's backstory. The putts were real.

Eight Benches, Six Plaques, Pure Panic

Master Build is next: Week 7, back at Northern Arizona University on Monday, October 12, 2026. Louie hands the Golden Chisel to the crew with the tightest tolerances. Only six of eight benches earn brass plaques, and the other two go into storage until the next funding round. Moore has gone from a -11 to a bogey-free -13 in back-to-back weeks, which is exactly the kind of tight tolerance that wins chisels, and both #1 tags are back on the line under the reshuffle. Those empty workstations need challengers.

Register for Master Build and claim a sawhorse. I can already hear somebody in the workshop insisting their wobble is "an intentional design feature," and honestly, I've watched enough drives rattle off pines to know that's what we all tell ourselves.